Inside vessel for fish-kettles and for other cooking utensils.



R. RITZENHOPI. INSIDE VESSEL FOB. FISH KBTTLES AND FOR OTHER. COOKINGUTBNSILS.

v.AYIFLIO-ATION FILED 1280.11, 1909. t

1,032,084 Patented July 9, 1912.

COLUMBIA PLANOORAPH CCMWASHINGTON. D. C.

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ROBERT RIIZENI-IOFE, OF HEIDELBERG, GERMANY.

INSIDE VESSEL FOR EISH-KETTLES AND FOR OTHER COOKING UTENSILS.

Application filed December 11, 1909.

To all 'LU/0m t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ROBERT RITZnNI-Iorr, a subject of the GermanEmperor, residing at 39 Schillerstrasse, Heidelberg', Germany, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Cooking Utensils, of which thefollowing is a specification.

An object of the invention is to provide a vessel to be inserted into akettle or the like and to contain iish or other articles of food to becooked.

A further object of the invention is to provide a vessel such asdescribed, with a grid of convenient construction, whereby the foodarticle, being cooked, may be kept out of contact with the bottom oft-he kettle and thereby, to avoid burning the food.

A still further object is to provide means for removing said article offood from the vessel without touching the said food with other utensilsor with the hands.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists inthe details of construction and in the arrangement and combination ofparts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to theaccompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, wherein likecharacters denote corre spending parts in the several views, in which-Figure l is a longitudinal, vertical section through the cooking vesselembodying a form of my invention; Fig. 2 is a transverse verticalsectional view; Fig. 3 is a detail plan view; and Fig. 4 is a vertical,transverse view in section showing the vessel in bifurcated position.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 9, 1912.

Serial No. 532,718.y

Tn the modiiied forms shown in Figs. 3, 3a, l and 4, the inside vesselcomprises two separable halves g and L, having extensions Z and e,respectively. The extensions furnish two pivotal points on the axialcenter line of a rod e', which forms a pivot, uniting the halves g and7i and also serves as a handle for the vessel. In this construction, thegrid fingers c are preferably secured to, or made integral with, thewalls of the vessel, and arranged in staggered relation, as shown inFig. 4e. rThese fingers are also preferably interlapped as shown.

I claim- 1. A cooking utensil comprising a container consisting of twosimilar and pivotally united half sections, each section carrying aseries of parallel fingers arranged in normally interlapped and spacedrelation with the fingers of the other section, the ends of the fingersbeing normally in proximal and spaced relation with the wall carg ryingthe other series of ingers.

2. A cooking utensil comprising two similar and pivotally connectedsections having substantially vertical walls, each wall carryingdownwardly and inwardly curved fingers extending laterally into proximaland spaced relation with the other wall and into interlapped and spacedrelation with the lingers thereof, and adapted to be moved out ofinterlapped relation by partial rotation of the said sections on theirpivotal connection.

ROBERT RITZENI-IOFF.

In presence of- WALTER STRAGK, LOUIS VANDoRY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

